Le Scenariste [French]

By Louis Gardel

THE SCRIPTWRITER

Fran ois is a novelist. He goes on to become a scriptwriter following a series of circumstances which he views as fate. He is not someone who steers his life. He makes do with what comes along.
Literary circles and the world of film form the setting for this book. The country-raised girl who Fran ois falls in love with works in Paris, in publishing. In order to live with Fran ois she brings a brutally quick end to her relationship with an ageing writer who is driven almost mad by this abandonment. But Fran ois is to ignore all blackmail and threats.
His mother settled in Algeria after it achieved independence, for ideological reasons, to be of use to this new nation. She returned to France in 1974, when her son was five.
Fran ois has never known who his father was. His mother never revealed his identity. She was someone who spoke little. Fran ois has taken his own stance on this secret. He has a huge appetite for happiness. He puts the things that torment him in the stories he writes. They are just transpositions of real life, more a quest for what may have happened or what could have happened, a sort of parallel world. Fran ois makes no calculations in everyday life. He lets chance and his own whims carry him: life isn't serious. What is serious is what he invents.

From Fort Saganne to Beau r le, from L'Aurore des bien-aim es to La Baie d'Alger, Louis Gardel has built a unique, diverse and particularly novelistic body of work. With The Scriptwriter, he is opening another door into his world: a novel of behaviour and of love.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234071895
• ISBN13: 9782234071896
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.5"